is there a problem with your icon sprite - can you upload a copy of it?
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web_bodMay 18 '12 at 22:47

its a png and it works if I just use css and link to html but now putting them into their right folders in rails seems so have done something to the hover.
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Russell AsherMay 18 '12 at 23:00

I figured it out (sort of) I had used scaffolding because I am just starting out with rails and that created some default scaffold css file. I deleted the information on that sheet and everything worked again. Thoughts?
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Russell AsherMay 18 '12 at 23:02

It really depends on the scaffold you were using, your best bet is just to view-source the rendered pages and look where the css files are coming from, it could be that the framework defaults to a black background - can't really tell from here, but at least it's fixed
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web_bodMay 18 '12 at 23:05